Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1908-2001 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
4.2 m of textual records
1 CD
212 photographs : b&w and col ; 8x10" or smaller
107 slides
32 audio cassettes
4x 45-rpm vinyl discs
3x 1/4 inch open reels
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Canadian playwright and journalist Lois Kerr, née Reynolds, was born in Hamilton, Ontario. Educated at the University of Toronto. Died in Vancouver, British Columbia, on December 5, 2001. Biographical information available in The Oxford companion to Canadian theatre, p. 284.
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
Acquired in several accessions between 1982 and 1999. MsC 275 donated by John R. Kerr in 2002.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Fonds consists of correspondence; diaries; scrapbooks; photographs and slides; personal and family memorabilia; manuscripts of stage and television plays, skits, lyrics, music, poetry, fiction and prose; playbills, reviews and promotional material relating to various play productions; and miscellaneous material. One small appendix (MsC 275) consists of material relating to Lois Kerr's memorial service and burial: a compact disc recording of a special arrangement of L. Kerr's song "Woods are full of violets" sung and recorded by David Kerr; programme of the service, December 16, 2001; texts of "Words of Remembrance" by L. Kerr's three sons; signatures of guests; and letters of condolence.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Fonds is arranged into 13 series:
- Articles and speeches
- Correspondence
- Diaries and journals
- Early work
- Miscellaneous
- Non-fiction
- Novels
- Plays
- Poetry
- Prose humour
- Scrapbooks and photographs
- Short stories
- Skits
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Some items restricted.
Condiciones
Idioma del material
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Text in English.
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Accession 475/90.15 interfiled with Accession 447/89.9.
Área de notas
Notas
Further accruals expected.
Notas
Title based on contents of the fonds.
Identificador/es alternativo(os)
ckey
Puntos de acceso
Puntos de acceso por materia
- Dramatists, Canadian
- Journalists and journalism
- Canadian Literary and Cultural Archives
- Articles
- Speeches, addresses, etc.
- Correspondence
- Photographs
- Diaries
- Notebooks
- Sound recordings
- Short stories
- Manuscripts
- Research
- Novels
- Drama
- Poetry
- Scrapbooks
- Theatre
- Slides (Photography)
- Video recordings
- Electronic records
Puntos de acceso por lugar
Puntos de acceso por autoridad
- Kerr, Lois (Materia)